COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — What do 2004 Joel Filani and 2015 Shelton Gibson have in common?
They were/are receivers coached by Dana Holgorsen and had/are having difficulties adjusting to passes thrown straight at their faces.
Holgorsen can only hope Gibson, his sophomore at West Virginia, makes the same corrections Filani did after his sophomore season at Texas Tech.
Smooth and ultra-speedy when it comes to tracking deep passes, Gibson’s preseason camp has featured too many drops on comebacks and underneath routes.
“Too tense. He fights it,” Holgorsen said.
“We saw this in recruiting: He could just flat-out go get a ball and catch it over his shoulder.